A night of mannerly British ballet coming after the Balanchine speed derby that San Francisco recently experienced was like switching to decaf. Three works by Sir Frederick Ashton and the return of ...

The Royal Opera House will continue its #OurHousetoYourHouse programme, featuring online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world for just £3. On Friday 2 April at 7pm GMT we ...

A sense of rebirth spreads through the Washington Ballet’s final series of the season. There’s an unmistakable optimism in the works, with the lemony springtime of Frederick Ashton’s “Symphonic ...

All the performing arts have taken a hammering, and heaven knows this isn’t a competition, but dance, and ballet especially, is a case apart. The technique that took decades to acquire needs constant ...

Ashton's "Symphonic Variations," which was initially produced in 1946 for the Sadler's Wells Ballet (later the Royal Ballet), is a work of pure dance to César Franck's "Symphonic Variations for Piano ...